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...Filonov's career peaked in late 1929, when the Russian Museum organized his personal exhibition - and crashed just weeks later in early 1930, when the authorities decided first not to open the exhibition to the public, and then to disband it altogether as undesirable. Filonov managed to present his works only twice more in collective Leningrad artists' exhibits. Then Communist Party authorities orchestrated a vicious press campaign depicting him as a hostile element to the ideals of the revolution. Filonov became a nonperson in a country less interested in "analytical art" than in the triumphant certainties of Socialist Realism...
This criticism drives Stringer nuts. In a world where everything is connected, he says, why disband a brand that can fulfill a consumer's every entertainment wish? He says the plan to get sprawling divisions to work together more closely is succeeding. "I just came back from China and the word Sony United is being stamped across every office there," he says. "People want to bring the company together." Slogans are one thing, though, and even Stringer acknowledges, "We still have a ways to go." Game...
...appearance by saying things had gotten better in Iraq and he was "optimistic." He stated that the U.S. military needed to increase the size of the number of advisors, speed up the provision of logistical support to the Iraqi Security Forces, and continue to push the Iraqi government to disband the militias. In a troubling aside to a question, Abizaid admitted that he had considered sending "significantly more" U.S. troops, but that the Iraqi government had not accepted the proposal...
...manufacturing outrage against novels, cartoons, lectures, essays and theater productions, the U.N. complies with Muslim prohibitions against speaking freely about Islam. The freedom to think and express oneself-and even mock authority figures-is the bedrock of Western values, and to defend this freedom it appears necessary to disband the U.N. and develop other international and regional organizations. Jiti Khanna Vancouver...
...manufacturing outrage against novels, cartoons, lectures, essays and theater productions, the U.N. complies with Muslim prohibitions against speaking freely about Islam. The freedom to think and express oneself - and even mock authority figures - is the bedrock of Western values, and to defend this freedom, it appears necessary to disband the U.N. and develop other international and regional organizations. Jiti Khanna Vancouver Cutting Our Losses Leslie Gelb's viewpoint "The Dominoes That Did Not Fall" [Oct. 23] argued that, after the U.S. defeat in Vietnam, "the dominoes did not fall." Well, they didn't fall...